16 occurrences

'Stone' in the Bible

So the Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron: Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt—over their rivers, canals, ponds, and all their water reservoirs—and they will become blood. There will be blood throughout the land of Egypt, even in wooden and stone containers.”

Verse ConceptsAaron, PrivilegesRivers And StreamsStonesWoodPoolsRodsBucketsStretching OutWater ContainersWood And Stone

But Moses said, “It would not be right to do that, because what we will sacrifice to the Lord our God is detestable to the Egyptians. If we sacrifice what the Egyptians detest in front of them, won’t they stone us?

Verse ConceptsAbominationsAbominations, PracticesFear Of StoningHating Peoplescats

The floods covered them;they sank to the depths like a stone.

Verse ConceptsdepthMan Going DownPeople As RocksDeep Seas

and terror and dread will fall on them.They will be as still as a stonebecause of Your powerful armuntil Your people pass by, Lord,until the people whom You purchased pass by.

Verse ConceptsMarketsPassing ThroughPurchasingTypes Of ChristArm Of GodMotionlessnessStaying PutPeople As Rocksgreatnessterrorism

Then Moses cried out to the Lord, “What should I do with these people? In a little while they will stone me!”

Verse ConceptsSelf PityCrying To GodFear Of Stoning

When Moses’ hands grew heavy, they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat down on it. Then Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on one side and one on the other so that his hands remained steady until the sun went down.

Verse ConceptsSittingSunsetsPeople Sitting DownOther Supportingtired

If you make a stone altar for Me, you must not build it out of cut stones. If you use your chisel on it, you will defile it.

Verse ConceptsAltars, Made OfDefilement, Ceremonial CausesArchitectureToolsCutting StonesLack Of Holiness

“When men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or his fist, and the injured man does not die but is confined to bed,

Verse ConceptsDisputesBatteryBedsBeating PeopleBeing Struck With StonesNot Dyingstriving

and they saw the God of Israel. Beneath His feet was something like a pavement made of sapphire stone, as clear as the sky itself.

Verse ConceptsFeetSkyTheophanyColors, BluePrecious StonesThose Who Saw GodPavementsClean ObjectsSky, Figurative UseJewellery And GodPurityThe Rainbow

The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and stay there so that I may give you the stone tablets with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”

Verse ConceptsFinger Of GodGod, Will OfLaw, Ten CommandmentsMountainsStonesTabletsGoing Up MountainsThe Law Given By GodWood And StoneGod Writing With His Fingercommandments

six of their names on the first stone and the remaining six names on the second stone, in the order of their birth.

Verse ConceptsSix Things

The 12 stones are to correspond to the names of Israel’s sons. Each stone must be engraved like a seal, with one of the names of the 12 tribes.

Verse ConceptsSealsengravingTwelve TribesTwelve Things

The Lord said to Moses, “Cut two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.

Verse ConceptsFinger Of GodTwoLaw, Ten CommandmentsLeaders, PoliticalToolsWritingSplitting RocksCutting StonesStone ItemsTwo Stone TabletsBreaking The Ten CommandmentsGod Writing With His Finger

Moses cut two stone tablets like the first ones. He got up early in the morning, and taking the two stone tablets in his hand, he climbed Mount Sinai, just as the Lord had commanded him.

Verse ConceptsTabletsRising EarlyCutting StonesGoing Up MountainsStone ItemsThose Who Rose EarlyTwo Stone Tablets

The 12 stones corresponded to the names of Israel’s sons. Each stone was engraved like a seal with one of the names of the 12 tribes.

Verse ConceptsSealsengravingTwelve TribesTwelve Things

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